Mattheus Schiner

Mattheus Schiner (1465-1 October 1522) was Bishop of Sion from 1499 to 1522 and a Cardinal. He was a general of the Old Swiss Confederation during the Italian Wars and fought at the 1515 Battle of Marignano.

Biography
Mattheus Schiner was born in Muhlbach in the Canton of Valais in the Old Swiss Confederation in 1465, and became the Bishop of Sion in 1499. He was also made a Cardinal under Pope Alexander VI, and during the War of the League of Cambrai, he took command of a Swiss army during the Italian Wars. In the 1513 Battle of Novara, Schiner captured Milan and fought well in the following 1515 battle of Marignano with the French, but he was driven back only by the arrival of Venetian reinforcements. He fought against France again in 1521, and only his anti-French sentiment prevented him from becoming the successor to Pope Leo X. He was the Bishop of Palermo from 1521 until his death in 1522.